by Daniel Hathaway
AFTER A WEEKEND OF VIOLENCE — PART TWO:
Continuing yesterday’s theme, and mindful of the challenge to the music industry by the organizers of Blackout Tuesday to set aside normal work today “for an honest, reflective, and productive conversation about what actions we need to collectively take to support the Black, community,” we can think of no more eloquent words to recommend than those of Wynton Marsalis in his long Facebook post from May 30.
“This is my response to injustice in our country and the world across the last forty years,” he writes at the end, sharing album covers of his compositions that draw on African American music and stories. Listen here to his 1997 oratorio Blood on the Fields, that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1997.
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